siliceous
adjective
containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
silicious
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a variation of
siliceous.
Example Sentences
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As grass contains silicious, glassy particles, the higher crowns enable tooth wear to be less severe.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2012
When burnt and ground, and mixed with a due proportion of silicious sand, it has been found to make a most superior kind of hydraulic cement or water lime.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
Scattered along the shores of the river at this place, I observed large, angular masses of pudding-stone, consisting chiefly of silicious pebbles and sand, cemented by oxide of iron.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Its compactness, superior softness, specific gravity, and coloring matter, distinguish it from silicious sinter.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The silicious sponges with simple spicules appear to have existed as far back as the Siluro-Cambrian, and there is believed to be almost as early evidence of horny or corneous sponges.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
